Venice

Two paintings of the same subject, Venice, only slightly different from each other, ie, the horizontal boat replaced by three vertical ones to balance the composition. The mood and atmosphere I tried to convey are sunset/moonlight, everything subdued. Only 4 colours used for harmony. Here they are:

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Hyde Park once again

I made a painting of the sketch I posted recently, on half imperial sheet. The sky is a bit different, the sky in watercolor, if you are using wet in wet, is always a happy accident or sad disaster. This time it is OK. The rest was easy and the finished painting is here:

Hyde Park Again

Hey up, you need to tell me if the composition sketch here makes a good painting? Need to know before attempting it bigger. Thanks.Firstly the reference photo:


Here is the sketch:



Thanks.

Back to Painting

Have not done a thing since Deepavali, ie after returning from Brussels and Leiden. Too many other things, the internet was not working for a week, very irritating. Finished another painting of the Gangaikonda Cholapuram temple. Here it is:

Gangai konda Cholapuram Temple

This is an ancient Chola temple, first time I am doing a temple. How is it?

Hyde Park Painting

I did an on the spot sketch of a spot in Hyde Park, the preliminary painting of which I posted recently. Today I finished the painting and here it is:

Comments welcome!

Hyde Park

Here is a small painting from a Hyde Park spot. See the reference photo. How good is it for a composition, of course I can improve on the tree. Need your views, please.

Rochester Castrle Revisited

I forgot to put the flag on the third one!. I have added it in real life. Imagine it is there. Thanks.

Rochester Castrle Revisited

Today I made 2 more paintings of the Rochester Castle. Then in the afternoon, made another one of the same. So there are 4 of them including the sketch I posted yesterday. Here are they in the order they were made:
Rochester Castle 1:



Rochester Castle 2:



Rochester Castle 3:



Comments are welcome. The third one is large size.

Rochester castle

Today's painting sketch of Rochester Castle, we visited on Thursday last week.

Stonewall Painting:from the workshop

This is the second day's painting from the Peter Woolley's workshop. My second attempt. Looks OK. Still can improve!

Barn painting Redone

This is the same barn painting from the workshop, wanted to improve and I believe it did this time around. Added a bit of autumn colours. Don't miss the sheep! Let me know what you think!

Painting Workshop in Peak District

I attended a painting workshop by the famous English Watercolour painter Peter Woolley on 27-28 September in Hartington, Peak District area. Went outdoors on first morning and did some sketches of a barn nearby and in the afternoon went along with Peter in painting the same. Couldn't finish by 5.00, so carried into the second morning which was very gloomy to go out. But by the time we finished, sun came out and went out for sketching the stonewalls which are part of the landscape here. After which Peter showed us how to paint the stonewall, there was just time enough for that! Here I post all the work I did as also Peter's. I finished the stone wall painting today. The first one is the painting by Peter Woolley as well as the sketch below(4th image).

LEEDS CASTLE

Today I did a painting of the Leeds Castle, from this photo, which is really good photo:



Here is the painting, I am not so satisfied, can do better next time:


I cropped it a bit:

Ithaca Skyscape

This is the veiw of the university from Cass park. Medium size sketch! Not sure it will be worth making a big painting out of it?!?!